Brandon Morrow definitely saved his best for last, having his best start since returning from the disabled list, on the last day of the season.
Striking out five of the first six batters he faced, it was easy to tell early on that Morrow had his best stuff working on the night. His eight innings, three hits, three walks, and one earned run with eleven strikeouts is one of the best pitching line...

The Blue Jays’ overall difficulty winning games aside, this past road trip has seen the team play a lot of baseball in a short span. After leaving Toronto last weekend, the team’s current trip features two double-headers and leads right into their last homestand of the season. When all is said and done, Toronto will have played 17 games in 15 days to close out 2012.
Game one in Baltimore on...

On a day where both Jays’ starters pitched well, the offence just couldn’t come up with enough support to get a win.
Henderson Alvarez had one of his better starts of the season. He lasted seven innings, struck out seven, walked none, and gave up five hits. The three runs he allowed in the game all came in the first inning, but he managed to shut it down after that. It was a nice progressio...

Summer’s on the wane and there’s a nip in the nighttime air. That means three things: school is back in session, baseball is heating-up and the pigskins are flying.
It’s a heady time for fans of America’s two favorite sports. Richard Kimble (The Fugitive) knew the score: “So, what are you, a football player, baseball player?,” asked the good doctor / janitor as he tweaked the orders...

The season has not been kind to Ricky Romero. After going 8-1 before the All-Star Break, Romero hasn’t been able to record a win in ten starts. His latest attempt against the Detroit Tigers was another forgettable trip to the mound for Romero.
Over his last ten games, Romero has shown moments of improvement over his control issues that have plagued him all season. In his last start against th...

If any Blue Jays follower was questioning whether or not J.A. Happ was just another stop-gap starter for the team, the 29 year-old lefty made great strides on Friday night against the Texas Rangers to put those questions to rest.
In his third start for Toronto, Happ threw 98 pitches over six innings, gave up one run on two hits, walked one and struck out eight. Most impressively, seven of his s...

It’s been a tough season for Ricky Romero. He hasn’t managed a win since June, at times because he’s unable to pitch effectively and other times because he doesn’t get any run support. Friday night against the Yankees, it was a combination of poor defense, lack of offense and ineffective relief pitching that cost Romero a chance at a win.
Romero started off the game with a three-up-thre...

The Blue Jays started off their series against the Detroit Tigers in a positive way. After avoiding the sweep with a 10-4 win against Oakland yesterday, Toronto was hoping to kick the weekend off with a win on Friday night.
Starter Carlos Villanueva was not at his most efficient, needing 99 pitches to make it through five innings. But, after giving up two, two-out solo homeruns to Miguel Cabrer...

Blue Jays’ training camp opens tomorrow, although that hardly changes much down in Dunedin, where all coaches and nearly all players have long-since arrived and are holding informal daily workouts.
It is to be lauded that so many players have shown up early when, in reality, there isn’t a ton on the line. You can essentially boil down the training camp battles to two significant ones – th...

As if managing the day-to-day operations of a baseball club and facing questions about his (lack of) off-season activity aren't stressful enough, Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos is growing self-conscious about his age as he approaches the big 3-5 this year.
Okay, I don't know that to be true whatsoever, but how else do you explain the sudden stockpiling of greybeards to fill holes in the roster? Each...

With baseball season now entering the summer months, teams begin to take stock of every single win as they approach the All-Star break. The Mariners certainly had more reason to be proud after winning four of their last seven games in back-to-back series.
After having won two of three against the Orioles at home, the M’s good luck continued as they welcomed the Rays for a four-game homestand....

(all statistics thru August 26)
BOOF BONSER
Time With Giants: Never played for Giants at major league level; as a top prospect was traded to Twins for A.J. Pierzynski.
Background: Boof has had a rough go of it since his one full season in the Twins' rotation. He missed all of 2009 recovering from surgery.
2010: He pitched in 2 games with Boston before being acquired by Oakland; he's given them...